{"id":415,"date":"2025-08-28T08:23:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films-netflix-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:24:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:24:46","slug":"bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films-netflix-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films-netflix-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films? | Netflix | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

But \u201cconsumers don\u2019t want to have to work hard to find what to watch,\u201d said Smallwood. \u201cThey just want the right thing served up to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/head>Todd Yellin believes ChatGPT is capable of writing a cookie-cutter Christmas movie now \u2013 but the potential blowback for trampling on human artistry wouldn\u2019t be worth the risk. Most interviewees I canvassed think we are still some years away from AI producing a boundary-pushing script.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/head>The strange paradox of the streaming era is that as the quest to personalise entertainment has continued, entertainment itself is becoming steadily more impersonal. The user, and the fantasy of unlimited choice, is king. The auteur, and singularity of perspective, are now subordinate \u2013 and the tsunami of AI threatens to wash them away completely.<\/span>
\n\u2014 Read on www.theguardian.com\/media\/2025\/aug\/28\/bland-easy-to-follow-for-fans-of-everything-what-has-the-netflix-algorithm-done-to-our-films<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But \u201cconsumers don\u2019t want to have to work hard to find what to watch,\u201d said Smallwood. \u201cThey just want the right thing served up to them.\u201d Todd Yellin believes ChatGPT is capable of writing a cookie-cutter Christmas movie now \u2013 but the potential blowback for trampling on human artistry wouldn\u2019t be worth the risk. Most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}